Petrify is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PETRIFY in dictionary:

VERB:
• to convert into a stony substance
• change (organic matter) into a stony substance by encrusting or replacing it with a calcareous, siliceous, or other mineral deposit.
• make (someone) so frightened that they are unable to move
• frighten severely
• To convert, as any animal or vegetable matter, into stone or stony substance.
• To make callous or obdurate; to stupefy; to paralyze; to transform; as by petrifaction; as, to petrify the heart. Young.
• To become stone, or of a stony hardness, as organic matter by calcareous deposits.
• Fig.: To become stony, callous, or obdurate.
• cause to become stonelike or stiff or dazed and stunned
• change into stone
• make rigid and set into a conventional pattern
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to convert into stone

Words related to PETRIFY

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Words that contain PETRIFY

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How to use PETRIFY in a sentence

• The cruel, mocking words of his daughter sounded over and over again in his ears, and seemed to petrify the power of his will and chain him fast, as if rooted to the floor.
• After this manner, it is my opinion that you should petrify this dog and this fox.
• Another precaution for the critic who would retain clearness of vision is the avoidance of abstract systems, which petrify and hinder the necessary flexibility of mind.
• Did living men petrify, I should have changed to mineral between the sheets.
• The terrible, ruthless smile, the glittering eyes of doom seemed literally to petrify the renegade.

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